Global Aspects of the WZNW Reduction to Toda Theories

dc.creatorTsutsui, I.
dc.creatorFeher, L.
dc.date1994-08-11
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dc.descriptionIt is well-known that the Toda Theories can be obtained by reduction from the Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten (WZNW) model, but it is less known that this WZNW $\rightarrow$ Toda reduction is \lq incomplete'. The reason for this incompleteness being that the Gauss decomposition used to define the Toda fields from the WZNW field is valid locally but not globally over the WZNW group manifold, which implies that actually the reduced system is not just the Toda theory but has much richer structures. In this note we furnish a framework which allows us to study the reduced system globally, and thereby present some preliminary results on the global aspects. For simplicity, we analyze primarily 0 $+$ 1 dimensional toy models for $G = SL(n, {\bf R})$, but we also discuss the 1 $+$ 1 dimensional model for $G = SL(2, {\bf R})$ which corresponds to the WZNW $\rightarrow$ Liouville reduction.
dc.description22 pages, INS-Rep.-1048
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9408065
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9408065
dc.identifierProg.Theor.Phys.Suppl.118:173-190,1995
dc.identifierdoi:10.1143/PTPS.118.173
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/192173
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleGlobal Aspects of the WZNW Reduction to Toda Theories
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